N.Y. needs Bill of Adoptee Rights

8:56 PM,
Feb. 27, 2014

Philomena Lee and actor Steve Coogan chat Feb. 6 after a news conference in Rome. Lee's story is the basis for the Oscar-nominated film 'Philomena,' about her experience as an unwed teenage mother in Ireland who was sent to a convent where her young son was taken from her and placed for adoption in the United States.

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Cynthia Crider Doolittle

The Bill of Adoptee Rights is pending once again in the New York state Legislature. Will it find its way to the floor this session? Another year later, I'm back again to support adult adoptees in their effort to be granted the rights that every New Yorker has, the right to access his or her original birth certificate and the medical histories of his/her birth parents.

Adoptees are like you and me. They're human. Why should they be discriminated against? Just because they happened to have been born of parents who were unable to raise them, they don't deserve to be treated differently. Adoptees, ...